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before 1972
Grande Ronde Riv, Oregon
Witness was fly fishing for summer steelhead in the Grande Ronde River in Northeastern Oregon when he noticed a very large animal sitting on a rock watching him. He kept an eye on it as he fished and it continued…
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before 1963
Estacada, Clackamus Cty, Oregon
Informant and two companions fishing on a wilderness lake "beyond Estacada" saw an animal on shore, "hairy but almost human." Rowed to shore, to find the fourth member of their party throwing rocks into the brush. He said that the…
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Dec 1885
Lebanon, Linn Cty, Oregon
Mr. Fitzgerald and others, hunting near Bald Peter in the Cascades, approached within a few yards of a "wild man" covered with hair, which was eating a deer. When it saw him it fled. Isaac Banty said to have seen…
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1890's
Brookings, Curry Cty, Oregon
Ivan Sanderson gives no source for this story, which refers to tracks of enormous, naked human feet passing back and forth from the foredsts to the seashore at the mouth of the Chetko River, and tells of two watchmen being…
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1899
Port Orford, Curry Cty, Oregon
Prospectors Robbins and Benson were developing a "gold ledge" above a spring beyond the head of Star Gulch on the South Fork of the Sixes River. Returning from lunch by the spring they looked back and saw a creature, big,…
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Dec 1900
Port Orford, Curry Cty, Oregon
Two miners, William Page and Johnnie McCulloch, out hunting. McCulloch saw and "animal-man" come down to a stream to drink. When he called Page's attention to it it bounded out of sight with catlike agility. Story says there have been…
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Mar 1904
Powers, Coos Cty, Oregon
Story quotes the Myrtle Point Enterprise saying that the "Wild Man" of the Sixes mining district (this time in Coos County, not Curry County) has been seen three times since March 10, when it appeared at night at a cabin…
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Apr 1904
Powers, Coos Cty, Oregon
Story quotes the Myrtle Point Enterprise saying that the "Wild Man" of the Sixes mining district (this time in Coos County, not Curry County) has been seen three times since March 10. On this occasion "a few days ago", it…
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1905
Florence, Lane Cty, Oregon
C.E. Dixon and another man returning from seashore towards Florence, saw huge tracks on a flat covered with small evergreens, near a small stream. Stick cut to track length measured 18 inches. Thought they were huge grizzly tracks. (No grizzlies…
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about 1922
Dora, Coos Cty, Oregon
Juanita Haines, then 7, and her sister, 5, saw a very large grey creature, apparently hair-covered, run across a clearing towards them on two legs. It was about a quarter mile away, and had covered about half the distance to…
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1983
Milton-Freewater, Umatilla Cty, Oregon
Gary Wielert and others were in camp at Big Meadows, on a high ridge between Mill Creek and the North Fork of the Walla Walla River during an elk hunt. They saw what they took to be another hunter walking…
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Oct 1924
Gold Beach, Curry Cty, Oregon
Young man rounding up cattle on high ridges below Craggie Mountains, told Woodruff and others that he had encountered barefoot human tracks heading back into the mountains and followed them until it was too dark. Tracks were huge and paces…
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late 1920's
St. Helens, Columbia Cty, Oregon
Unnamed informant told Oregon Journal columnist in 1963 that from 1926 to 1928 at the logging town of Yankton (just West of St. Helens, of which it is now a suburb) several people reported seeing a hairy creature 7 feet…
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early 1930's
Cottage Grove, Lane Cty, Oregon
Bob Bailey and George Small, hunting cougar in the winter near the head of Mosby Creek, had started up Sharps Creek and were hiking over to Cougar Bend when Bailey saw a large animal resembling a gorilla walking away from…
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1930's
Grants Pass, Josephine Cty, Oregon
James Seliger told Lee Trippett he had seen Bigfoot tracks while prospecting in the Coast Range near the California border in the 1930's, and that tracks and sightings were common among the miners there. No specifics recorded in Trippett's report…
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Aug 1933
Seaside, Clatsop Cty, Oregon
Irving C. Allen is quoted as saying that while out with a search party on Tillamook Head, a 1000-foot-high hill projecting into the sea, he lagged behind the others on Bald Mountain, and glancing behind him saw a shaggy beast,…
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Aug 1933
Seaside, Clatsop Cty, Oregon
Clement Klink, one of a search party looking for missing vacationers on Tillamook Head, a 1000-foot-high hill projecting into the sea, hunting mear the "death trap", looked up a cliff and saw an animal-like human pearing down at him, a…
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1934
Maupin, Wasco Cty, Oregon
Winn Forman's grandmother Carey told him that ranch hands herding the family sheep along the East flank of the Cascades near Maupin saw a hairy man sitting on a stump with his back to them. It suddenly stood up and…
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1930's
Gold Beach, Curry Cty, Oregon
A logger named Frye told Jack Woodruff that in late fall in the Rogue River foothills in the 1930's he saw big human barefoot prints heading back into broken country of the Craggie Mountains in a foot of snow.
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1930's
Quartzville, Linn Cty, Oregon
A friend, a former deputy sheriff, told Francis Williams, 460 Tangent St., Lebanon, Oregon, that around the 1930's or early 40's he and another person were going up a trail to a mine near Quartzville when they came to a…
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about 1940
Dallas, Polk Cty, Oregon
Woman told Jim Hewkin that when she was about 6, living near the logging town of Valsetz, she used to play with a baby sasquatch. Its mother and a small child was also there and she heard another that never…
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1953
Sandy, Clackamas Cty, Oregon
Fisherman told his two companions that while fishing a pool in the Alder Creek canyon he felt an unnpleasant sensation and looked up to see a huge, hair-covered creature resembling both man and beast watching him from a thicket. It…
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1957
Bend, Deschutes Cty, Oregon
Gary Joanis and John Newall were hunting near Wanoga Butte. Joanis saw a small deer enter a clearing and shot it. As he waited to be sure it was dead a hairy-covered biped at least 9 feet tall emerged from…
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about 1958
Umqua Mountains, Oregon
Florence Wallport said that she and her daughter were driving on a narrow road in the Umqua Mountains when she asked her daughter to stop the car, and opened the door. Close by was what she thought was a stump,…
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Dec 1969
Bend, Deschutes Cty, Oregon
Jop Morgan, former director of Mt. Bachelor Ski Resort, said that in late 1959 he saw very large unusual footprints at about 7000 feet, which had not been made by snowshoes and were not melted out. (Presume Mt. Bachelor to…